Germany gigantic Gerd Mueller, broadly regarded as one in every of the game’s most attention-grabbing goalscorers and nicknamed “Bomber der Nation”, has died at the age of 75, his extinct membership Bayern Munich acknowledged on Sunday.
Mueller scored 68 aims in 62 global suits for West Germany, worthwhile the World Cup in 1974, and is third in the all-time record of most aims in the opponents with 14 aims at the support of Ronaldo (15) and Miroslav Klose (16). He also won the European championship in 1972 with them.
Having joined Bayern in 1964, Mueller – an instinctive goalscorer who used to be supreme in the air and like a flash on his feet – pumped in 566 aims in 607 aggressive video games for the membership. He also deny a document of 365 aims in the Bundesliga in a trophy-weighted down profession that included four league titles and three European Cups with Bayern.
“Today is a tragic, murky day for Bayern and all of its fans. Gerd Mueller used to be the very best striker there has ever been and a lovely individual, a personality in world soccer,” Bayern president Herbert Hainer acknowledged in a observation.
“We`re united in deep sorrow with his wife Uschi and his family. With out Gerd Mueller, Bayern would not be the membership all of us adore these days. His name and the memory of him will are dwelling on without end.”
Bayern didn’t give miniature print of about Mueller`s death however CEO Oliver Kahn acknowledged that the information affected them deeply.
“He`s one in every of the very best legends in the history of Bayern, his achievements are unmatched to at the 2nd and must amassed without end be half of the extensive history of Bayern and all of German soccer,” Kahn acknowledged.
“As a player and as an individual, Gerd Mueller stands be pleased no utterly different for Bayern and its pattern into one in every of the supreme golf equipment on the earth. He`ll be in our hearts without end.”
